tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post2412682221748349375..comments2016-12-07T01:46:17.403-08:00Comments on HARDCORE ZEN: THIS IS AUSTIN NOT LA!Brad Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13273179722564495744noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-83168299224115729822011-09-26T13:43:31.764-07:002011-09-26T13:43:31.764-07:00Pretty effective piece of writing, much thanks for...Pretty effective piece of writing, much thanks for your article.comprar un yatehttp://yatesspain.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-618854166605487652009-04-25T20:05:00.000-07:002009-04-25T20:05:00.000-07:00ARRRGH! I skip reading the blog for just a week or...ARRRGH! I skip reading the blog for just a week or two and there Brad goes and shows up mere blocks from my house???!!! and I miss it?? WTF!!Mike Rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727330276157117680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-46691912150796591312009-04-21T08:01:00.000-07:002009-04-21T08:01:00.000-07:00"The point is that selflessness, or "dropping body..."The point is that selflessness, or "dropping body and mind," as Dogen calls it, are not just airy ideas but experiences..."<br /><br />Hi, 'dropping body and mind' as Dogen had it is not really a matter of any notion of self or not-self, nor is it only confined to an experience of body and/or mind... it really is dropping body and mind in that it is a real action... an action is dynamic and flowing, like body/mind.<br /><br />If anything this does not negate anything but affirms the self. As Sawaki Roshi put it: "The self making the self into the self".<br /><br />This is quite characteristic of Dogen's Zen in that he emphasized our real affirmative actions and avoided inherently baseless and redundant 'emptiness' philosophies/ viewpoints.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Harry.Harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168631752214481563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-87468557439195617972009-04-21T03:01:00.000-07:002009-04-21T03:01:00.000-07:00One of my favorite all time comp. LPs EVER!!!One of my favorite all time comp. LPs EVER!!!Joshua B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05114808401492456567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-36206307930092520862009-04-21T02:21:00.000-07:002009-04-21T02:21:00.000-07:00Jinzang -
Please try to avoid condescension ;-) W...Jinzang - <br />Please try to avoid condescension ;-) What makes you think I haven't practiced and "found out"? My point: Any and all Kensho/satori experiences (of no experiencer)are super, and I, yes "I" might see the true nature of stuff, but still gotsta carry the firewood and chop the water. <br />Don't, I respectfully suggest, be caught by thoughts or perceptions YOU believe are better than others.Me, myself and Inoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-50300262795509926612009-04-20T18:00:00.000-07:002009-04-20T18:00:00.000-07:00Thanks for sitting with us in San Antonio.
As I un...Thanks for sitting with us in San Antonio.<br />As I understand your dharma talk, I will just brush my teeth twice a day and sit after brushing.<br /><br />KimKimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304056638573891998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-70461532920097519472009-04-20T17:55:00.000-07:002009-04-20T17:55:00.000-07:00I think that selflessness, or dropping body and mi...I think that selflessness, or dropping body and mind, is very overrated here. Just do it and shut up.Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06825454951290155337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-33680052057389798732009-04-20T17:21:00.000-07:002009-04-20T17:21:00.000-07:00But the fact is, I (?) will always feel/perceive t...<I>But the fact is, I (?) will always feel/perceive that "I am", and that "my" body is just that.</I><BR><BR>Don't be so sure.<BR><BR><I>But I may have misunderstood the point you're trying to make. What is it?</I><BR><BR>The point is that selflessness, or "dropping body and mind," as Dogen calls it, are not just airy ideas but experiences. How can there be experiences without an experiencer? Practice and find out. You don't have to believe this, but don't close your mind to it either.Jinzanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155467948613318531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-36507919598532218912009-04-20T16:22:00.000-07:002009-04-20T16:22:00.000-07:00Jinzang - I have no answers. I don't believe there...Jinzang - I have no answers. I don't believe there are answers to the questions you ask. I understand that you're pointing to the impossibility of locating "I" (the koan "who/what am I?"). But the fact is, I (?) will always feel/perceive that "I am", and that "my" body is just that. Because it works. That's how it is. That's what enables me to interact with the world. Pondering, or even believing that you (?) have experienced, perhaps in meditation, anatta, clearly begs the question who/what is experiencing, or pondering? Very nice. Pretty cosmic. Fascinating and amazing, but pretty useless, I feel. <br />But I may have misunderstood the point you're trying to make. What is it?Me. myself and Inoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-11117154489950548972009-04-20T08:46:00.000-07:002009-04-20T08:46:00.000-07:00Whatever my sense of self is, it's surely dependan...<I>Whatever my sense of self is, it's surely dependant on my body. The body determines the "self's" location in time and space. The sense of "self" may be nothing other than an expression of the body; of its processes. </I><BR>A set of perceptions has a perspective (i.e, a "location in space and time"), but what makes you assume those perceptions are yours? What makes you assume those perceptions are anybody's?Jinzanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155467948613318531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-49363344884187367302009-04-20T08:27:00.000-07:002009-04-20T08:27:00.000-07:00Anonymi said
"Brad quoted..."
Grrroooaaannn!!!
H...Anonymi said<br />"Brad quoted..."<br /><br />Grrroooaaannn!!!<br /><br />How about modifying the<br />Bodhisattva Vow to say:<br /><br />"I vow to save all beings FROM MY BAD JOKES."<br /><br />Or maybe specifically an 11th Precept saying:<br /><br />"I undertake the precept to refrain from<br /> That's What She Said jokes."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-10951448790821459932009-04-20T08:15:00.000-07:002009-04-20T08:15:00.000-07:00Maybe Buddha said that. I heard it or read it som...Maybe Buddha said that. I heard it or read it somewhere, I didn't come up with it myself. I think I've heard that same idea from more than one Buddhist teacher.mttohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17810760660891095925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-45395202295027882872009-04-20T03:34:00.000-07:002009-04-20T03:34:00.000-07:00mtto thats very good what you writ there I supose ...mtto thats very good what you writ there I supose thats wat Jinz was sayin innit I fink you said it more better did it come from somefing Buhhda said or did you mek it up yoiuself? Nice one.Me, meself and Inoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-7707180053859931452009-04-19T22:13:00.000-07:002009-04-19T22:13:00.000-07:00THIS IS PHOENIX NOT THE CIRCLE JERKS!
After I saw...THIS IS PHOENIX NOT THE CIRCLE JERKS!<br /><br />After I saw your title I couldn't resist ... hey, I've set up an archive on yahoo about Barry Graham Roshi ... all the stuff I discovered or received regarding him disproving most any claim he ever made ...<br /> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Barry_Graham_Investigation_Archive/James Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16353510162082881645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-71457587743135863492009-04-19T21:52:00.000-07:002009-04-19T21:52:00.000-07:00Blogger Jinzang said...
"You don't need to invoke...Blogger Jinzang said...<br /><br />"You don't need to invoke quantum mechanics..."<br /><br />No... except it's odd that while things eastern (Jain/Buddha/Hindu) exist in an odd kind of harmony with Quantum Physics (including <A HREF="http://bourabai.kz/tdynamics-e.doc" REL="nofollow">quantum thermodynamics</A> - e.g. the universe), things western (Judahism/Xtism/Muhhanadism) miss the reality boat entirely.Mysterionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12649237112389489841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-55921292398834233512009-04-19T20:06:00.000-07:002009-04-19T20:06:00.000-07:00If my body is mine, how come it gets old and fat a...If my body is mine, how come it gets old and fat and headaches even though I don't want it to do any of those things. If it is mine it should do what I tell it to do. But it doesn't.<br /><br />If my body is mine, how come when my body dies I don't get to keep it?mttohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17810760660891095925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-66195298209159168832009-04-19T19:13:00.000-07:002009-04-19T19:13:00.000-07:00"...your physical body. It's not yours in any real..."...your physical body. It's not yours in any real sense..."<br /><br />Oooh...I'm no philosopher, but.. I dunno about that, Jinz. I think the "not yours" thing is a fallacious red herring. Whatever my sense of self is, it's surely dependant on my body. The body determines the "self's" location in time and space. The sense of "self" may be nothing other than an expression of the body; of its processes. <br /><br />I think there are better ways to "explain non-self": Most ppl get that there is (Buddhism says) no seperate, self-existent, essence, spirit, or soul that lives in, and might at death, leave the body. Our sense of "a self" is, in that sense, an illusion. That'll do, won't it?Me, myself and Inoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-71825883689544614152009-04-19T18:49:00.000-07:002009-04-19T18:49:00.000-07:00Watcha,Zipes!
Oh Yeah. "Lexical Constructions: Pa...Watcha,Zipes!<br /><br />Oh Yeah. "Lexical Constructions: Paradigms and Periphrastic Expression." I remember.<br /><br />It was ok. BUT...<br /><br />“… an inflected word’s association with its<br />morphosyntactic feature specifications is logically<br />prior to the spelling out of its inflectional markings,<br />since it is this very association that determines the<br />sequence of operations by which those markings are<br />introduced; the realizational approach thus entails a<br />rejection of the assumption that a word’s<br />morphosyntactic feature content is built cumulatively<br />from that of its inflectional `morpheme’ by a<br />percolation mechanism.” (Stump 1993)<br /><br />See, I don't reckon that's true. Not always. Not Really. Waddayoofink?No, Really?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-25770853520715355942009-04-19T17:57:00.000-07:002009-04-19T17:57:00.000-07:00i was asking another kind of advice from brad,Sorr...<I>i was asking another kind of advice from brad,</I>Sorry I jumped to conclusions, I do that often. Here's wishing you and the devoted dharma students of the post-secession Republic of Texas the best of luck in making it a Buddhist Republic.Jinzanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155467948613318531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-76157715108751464772009-04-19T17:24:00.000-07:002009-04-19T17:24:00.000-07:00You don't need to invoke quantum mechanics to expl...You don't need to invoke quantum mechanics to explain non-self. It's very simple. Take something that belongs you. Is there some scientific test of that object's physical properties that would show that its yours? No, because ownership is only a legal concept. That applies to everything, including your physical body. It's not yours in any real sense and if it's not yours how could it be you? So there is no you, your self is nothing but a concept.Jinzanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155467948613318531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-51812955266823319462009-04-19T16:28:00.000-07:002009-04-19T16:28:00.000-07:00No, really? did you attend the seminar?
a tausend...No, really? did you attend the <A HREF="http://ling.ucsd.edu/~ackerman/lfgworkshop.pdf" REL="nofollow">seminar</A>?<br /><br />a <A HREF="http://www.grimmsfairytales.us/db3/00237/grimmsfairytales.us/_uimages/BrothersGrimmBanknote.jpg" REL="nofollow">tausend</A> thanks.Zipeshttp://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c2857.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-10521481702358923812009-04-19T15:51:00.000-07:002009-04-19T15:51:00.000-07:00Yep, jinzang- "u" to "o" through "guna"; "o" to "a...Yep, jinzang- "u" to "o" through "guna"; "o" to "au" through vrddhi, it's true; called the"samprasana" process, used in the declension of nominals and conjugation of verbs. I don't see how that has much relevance here; the "aum" sign is clearly a devanagari "U" (long U) - without the horizontal bar. But you may have a point. I'm just showing off. I don't really know shit. Not Really.No, Really?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-22405235534315202162009-04-19T15:31:00.000-07:002009-04-19T15:31:00.000-07:00spirituality is something Brad is approaching... ...spirituality is something Brad is approaching... e.g. is consciousness 'our own' individual experience or is consciousness a portion of a larger (~god) experience of which we are but a small part.<br /><br />According to some Hindu traditions, we are now, and will always be, of one substance. Consciousness is a state in which (as in the ocean) bubbles well up to separate one part of the water from other parts (the separated part being the I as in individuals). When those 'life bubbles' burst, we are all again of one substance (an ocean of ~ water).<br /><br />This theory works nicely with Planck's Loops in which all of the space-time fabric is a kind of 3D chain mail of interlocking loops. Were the chains to be stretched out in all directions, there would be no perceivable 'mass.' Space-time would exist as large and cold. Were the chain to be compressed into one loop (<A HREF="http://universe-review.ca/R01-07-quantumfoam.htm" REL="nofollow">1 x 10^-33 cm</A>) then 'singularity' would be experienced. Space-time would exist as small and hot.<br /><br />Like a Slinky, this space-time expands, then shrinks, then expands, then shrinks, forever (without <A HREF="http://www.strange-loops.com/scitime.html" REL="nofollow">beginning</A> or end).<br /><br />Thus, concepts like "you and I,' 'us and them,' and 'that and this,' are utterly without any meaning whatsoever.Mysterionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12649237112389489841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-8152626866480669702009-04-19T07:05:00.000-07:002009-04-19T07:05:00.000-07:00to jinzang:
it's true what you say, and i do have...to jinzang:<br /><br />it's true what you say, and i do have a teacher. we're not in constant contact, but nevertheless i feel she's guided me through the most critical twists and turns and is always available to me for support.<br /><br />i was asking another kind of advice from brad, since he's publishing books about spirituality and that's something i'd also like to do at some point.<br /><br />thanks for the advice ;)nerodhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461187073855791037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17340756.post-25079753910727148462009-04-19T06:40:00.000-07:002009-04-19T06:40:00.000-07:00Traditional Sanskrit grammar says that the vowel u...<B>Traditional</B> Sanskrit grammar says that the vowel u is transformed to o through strengthening (guna), which means adding a short "a." Om is sometimes written as aum because of some <B>fanciful</B> interpretations of its meaning.Jinzanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155467948613318531noreply@blogger.com